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Poem by Paul Hamilton Hayne


A Lyrical Picture


SEE! See!
How the shadows steal along,
Blending in a golden throng,
Softly, lovingly;
From each mossed and quaint tree-column,
Stretched toward the dimpling river,
How they quiver!
While in low, pathetic tone
Twilight's herald-breeze is blown
Down the sunset solemn!

Hear! hear!
Dropped from gray mists, circling high,
The sea-wending curlew's cry,
Strangely wild and drear;
Echoed by a voice that thrills us,
From the murmurous verge of ocean--
Voice that fills us
With a sense of mystery old,
And vague memories which enfold
Many a weird emotion.

Turn! turn!
From yon loftier cloud-land dun;
Mark what splendors of the sun
Westward throb and burn--
Burn as if some glorious angel
Blessed the air and land and river
With his mute evangel:
All things own so rich a grace
That in Heaven's divine embrace
Earth seems clasped forever!



Paul Hamilton Hayne


Paul Hamilton Hayne's other poems:
  1. Too Oft the Poet in Elaborate Verse
  2. An Idle Poet, Dreaming in the Sun
  3. “The Old Man of the Sea”
  4. Now, While the Rear-Guard of the Flying Year
  5. In Harbor


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